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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform, with a bias spread of just 0.5 points across all outlets. NPR and the Boston Globe framed the story around the legal action taken by press organizations, using the phrase "ask court to bar White House enforcement" — language that centers the media plaintiffs' perspective and characterizes the White House as an enforcing party being challenged. This framing is mildly sympathetic to the press, though not stridently so. NeutralNews took a more plainly factual approach, reporting the underlying event directly with "White House Excludes CNN From Air Force One Press Pool" — a construction that describes a specific, concrete action without foregrounding the legal response. The modest difference between outlets lies less in ideological slant than in editorial choice: some led with the lawsuit, others with the precipitating event. No outlet exhibited strongly partisan language in either direction.